ARGENTINE OPEN TRIPLE CROWN POLO Championship
World No. 1 Ten Goaler Aldofo Cambiaso's Polo Team La Dolfina has just won the hardest polo challenge in the polo world, the famous and impossible . . . Triple Crown. The Argentine Open Polo Championship is preposterously difficult with no players in Australia capable of being selected to play at the level of skill required. Australia has only ever produced one player, Mr Sinclair Hill of Moree who has had the priviledge of being invited to play at Palermo, Buenos Aries in this 40 Goal Open Polo Championship. For such, he was awarded the highest handicap possible by the Australian Federation. Yet Aldofo Cambiaso and his team of superb polo playing greats hold not only the 2013 Argentine Open Trophy aloft, but are also the world's second and third most difficult tournament winners. Making 2013 only the fifth time the Triple Crown has been won in the history of polo.
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His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales presents England Polo Team Captain Luke Tomlinson with the winners’ trophy the Westchester Cup, Guards Polo Club, Egham, Surrey. The Westchester Cup polo challenge between the United States of America and England is the longest running polo rivalry in the world. England had not won the trophy since 1997.
Story by Alex Webbe Photography by Celine Genonceau
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England 1. James Beim 7 |
USA 1. Pablo Pieres 8 |
Prince of Wales 1. Alec White 3 |
Hurlingham 1. Oliver Cudmore 4 |
Out-gunned and out-horsed, the United States polo team led 8 goals to 7 at the end of the first half. They outscored England 2-0 in the sixth chukker forcing the 2013 Westchester Cup into overtime before losing 12-11.
Playing an away game in international polo usually means that you will not be riding your horses, a distinct disadvantage in a game where the horse is considered to be as much as 80% of the game. Additionally, the US team faced an English team of four professional players, ranging from six to eight goals, while the US took the field with amateur Marc Ganzi, who carries a 1-goal handicap, but until the final goal, it was anyone’s game. 
The 26-goal US team received two goals by handicap from the 28-goal English foursome, but Mark Tomlinson scored the first goal of the game for England who trailed 2-1. Mike Azzaro scored on a beautifully delivered pass from Nic Roldan to extend the lead back to two goals, 3-1. James Beim accounted for the final goal of the opening chukker. The US was in front, 3-2.
Goals from Beim and Mark Tomlinson had England in the lead in the second period, but Pieres got loose to score his first goal of the day. The score was all even at 4-4 going into the third chukker.
Polito Pieres took control of the game in the third chukker for the United States, scoring three consecutive goals, 7-4, before a US foul interrupted the rhythm. Luke Tomlinson converted the shot. He and Beim added single goals to lock it up at 7-7. Nic Roldan scored the final goal of the chukker to give the US an 8-7 advantage at the end of the first half.
